Typecasting

Just watching the Road to Perdition. An excellent film. Hanks is great. Hanks can do just about anything and he fits, right? He's pretty much believable in any role. You never look at Hanks in a film and think 'WTF is Forrest Gump doing there???!' do you?

Yet here's Daniel Craig. He sticks out like a sore thumb. I know he's great in this film, but he's made James Bond so very much his own since the last time I watched it that I cannot 'see' his character properly. How did that happen? I hope it wears off.

jonsaan wrote:
I'm always amazed when people say what great actors they are.

Ray Winstone.

Hmm.

He's terrible when he's not playing an East End Villain (though, granted, he's fucking good at that). He was the worst thing in Indy 4, which is impressive going in a movie entirely made of worst things. Though I do give him credit for not even bothering to hide his accent for Beowulf.

I was drawn to thinking of John Thaw earlier, after seeing a trailer for 'Lewis' which didn't even feature the titular character, assuming he's still even in the series.

I can only assume Thaw took on the role as a counterpoint to Regan, who he surely was identified with before that programme. Although looking at wikipedia, he did Home to Roost between the two, and that was definitely not Regan in that, as I recall.